Remember this a couple weeks ago?
Starmer could send Army’s troubled Ajax vehicles to Ukraine. Fleet has been plagued by litany of problems, but troops confident it could outgun and outperform Russian rivals.
I don't know what troops are they talking about, but UK doesn't have functional army and an average motorrifle battalion commander from Russian Army can lecture British generals from General Staff for months on modern tactics and use of armor forces. So, they can be confident in whatever they want to be confident, but they should get latest issues of Voennaya Mysl (Military Thought) and read up on, say combined arms operations (ah, yes, I forgot--they don't know what operations are, since they don't have operational and operational-strategic level formations--divisions and up), and take it to heart because it is written by people who actually did fight actual wars and have Ph.Ds in military sciences, STEM et al.
The Army has suspended the use of its Ajax armoured vehicles after 31 soldiers fell ill while using them. Troops taking part in a war game on Salisbury Plain over the weekend reportedly emerged from the £10m transporters vomiting because of noise and vibration issues. The setback comes just weeks after Luke Pollard, the defence minister, showcased the Ajax fleet and declared them “safe”. Some 60 vehicles were used during the exercise, which involved hundreds of soldiers from the Household Cavalry and the Royal Lancers. Sources said the Iron Fist drill was immediately halted after troops reported “tingling hands, ringing in their ears and feeling sick”. The safety fears, first reported by the Times, meant all Ajax vehicles involved in the drills had to be moved back to the nearest camp by transporters.
As you might understand, the ONLY proper thing here will be one of those famous Benny Hill's chases under the famous Yakety Sax melody ... Ah, what the hell--it is from England we all loved and grew up with.
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